hi,
please, can anybody tell me:
1. where i can find out whether or not a particular tape drive is compatible with my sunblade 100 workstation running solaris 9?
2. do external tape drives usually connect to the workstation's serial port?
3. what kind of specs/features should i be looking out for?
thanks in advance for your replies.
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sun-certified
I would imagine you could use any tape drive with your sun blade... most are connected by either scsi or fiber channel... there could be some that are network controlled... not aware of any that are controlled by serial port...
GOOGLE is a wonderful thing... try it, you will like it...
compatibility is more concerned with which OS and program you want to use with the tape drive...
specs depend on what you are backing up... a single user would most likely only need a single drive... if you were a multi-national corp, then maybe you might contact Sun Sales...
maybe you should to some research yourself...
haroldkarl
why did you even waste your time writing such a snide and condenscending message? does it make you feel clever? i know what google is! do you know what a storage forum is?
here is a clue:
Storage Forums
For all your questions related to disk and tape products, storage networking, storage management, virtualization, SAN, NAS, HBAs, switches, file systems, and multipath/failover. Solve all your issues related to availability, backup, archiving, replication, snapshot.
keep your patronizing remarks to yourself!
